NOW that Gordon Campbell Thomas has had a photo of himself in The Press, standing outside The Old York Tea Rooms, minus the harmless lettering, perhaps he could get round to Piccadilly and put as much energy into bringing an end to real “vandalism” that is a stack of unsightly shipping containers?
The benign Tea Room lettering was only in place a couple of years and caused no nuisance to anyone. The shipping containers were recognised at the outset as being contrary to policies and not compatible with residential neighbours but were perversely allowed on the condition they would be there only three years.
Yet they remain in place after eight years – and still counting. But strangely no sign of Mr Campbell Thomas and his cardboard sign protesting about clear breaches of all local and national planning policies and in particular the Section 72 of the 1990 Planning Act.
He is remarkably selective about his campaigns. I wonder why? Does the ghost of William Etty come into is dreams at night to tell him where to direct his ire?
Matthew Laverack,
Lord Mayors Walk,
York
No doubt to gloat at one of his greatest achievements and to make sure that only genuine authentic 12th-century materials were used – Limewash or Distemper paints with light buff or ochre tones, applied with an animal hair brush. If you’re doing it, you might as well do it right.
D M Deamer,
Penleys Grove Street,
Monkgate,
York
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Spark is now a tourist destination
I WAS wondering how soon it would be after your feature about Spark asking to extend their tenancy before Matthew Laverack re-inserted the bee into his bonnet.
He hasn’t disappointed. One wonders how a car park in its place will be any better for sound, pollution, indeed for sound pollution.
As for the owners not divvying up profits, well, what’s new. Like it or not, Spark is now a tourist destination.
Not many visitors come to see a car park.
Nigel Cummings,
Charlton Street,
York
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Starmer’s an embarrassment
AFTER watching the President of the United States greeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his golf course in Scotland Donald Trump virtually took him to pieces in front of the world’s television screens.
Starmer stood there and told blatant lies to the British public and the world, this was mainly about illegal immigration and his achievements in stopping it only to be shot down time and time again.
It was a total embarrassment to the whole of Great Britain
TJ Ryder,
Acomb,
York
… METHINKS our current Prime Minister is bessie friends with, and enjoying the company of, many Presidents these days – is this going to his head – perhaps he is aspiring to be the UK’s first President?
Mary Morton,
Hob Moor Drive,
Holgate,York
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Economic prediction
RACHEL Reeves must consider the public to be as naive about finance as she is, for to claim she is stabilising the economy is patently ridiculous. Since becoming Chancellor, national debt has ballooned, growth is in reverse, unemployment on the increase, taxes at an all time high, business investment non-existent, public services in rapid decline.
Certainly not a recipe for creating the wealth and expansion programme she claims to be overseeing.
Starmer and Reeves are blindly leading the nation towards bankruptcy, a prediction which shouldn’t be dismissed as political rhetoric.
Peter Rickaby,
West Park,
Selby
